tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post6458318849742987400..comments2018-02-12T11:55:02.489+01:00Comments on Greedy goblin: Azuriel and his bad science and accessible easy gamesGevlonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-75595752034620851342017-08-10T11:34:50.805+02:002017-08-10T11:34:50.805+02:00Well, Life is all about content, and people can pr...Well, Life is all about content, and people can provide content without actually doing anything &quot;useful&quot;. In the perfect world you are seeking, competition would be draining people of their blood and soul, but at the end, there is only death. I&#39;m right now at work looking at four cats doing nothing else but nothing. It&#39;s gonna rain. Wind is blowing. This is not ideal: this is life.guldurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-20891794552558505132017-08-10T10:10:36.138+02:002017-08-10T10:10:36.138+02:00@Esteban: If Lakisha has a competitive resume, tha...@Esteban: If Lakisha has a competitive resume, that can easily mean that she was affirmative actioned through school with academic performance that would make a white person not graduate, got diversity hired into previous workplaces and was given a letter of recommendation and severance package when she turned out to be useless when a white with same performance would get a &quot;you are fired lazy punk&quot;. <br /><br />John Worthington III IS a safe bet. He might be dumb and lazy and will be useless and I have to lay him down after wasting months of salary and training. But I won&#39;t have a lawsuit, a BLM boycott and a smear article on the New York Times when it happens. <br /><br />Again: the problem isn&#39;t with Lakisha. It&#39;s with liberals with affirmative action and title IX and antidiscrimination lawsuits and microaggressions and whatnot. <br /><br />The sad part is that I realize how damaging this is for Lakisha who is not responsible for her name and no one will tell it to her face to change it because of fear of a lawsuit. Lakisha will have to figure out on her own to change into Linda, change her hair and clothing into Michelle Obama style to become SAFE option. <br /><br />People refuse Lakisha NOT because of hatred or despise but because of FEAR. Lakisha can destroy their company with a Facebook post, without even intent to destroy. A &quot;my boss was an asshole today&quot; can turn into a &quot;Black woman faces racist hate at XX&quot; news item, and even if she later clarifies that it was just &quot;sales were horrible and he was criticizing the whole team without even singling me out&quot;, they would go on how she is threatened and having Stockholm syndrome and the workplace is even worse.<br /><br />Affirmative action and identity politics is the REASON of inequality of certain groups. It makes the DEVIANTS of this group more powerful, therefore damaging the non-deviant part of the group. Lakisha isn&#39;t an enemy, she is a weapon in the hands of the enemy (just like fetuses don&#39;t attack women, pro-life religious nuts do).<br /><br />Since Hungary has no such liberal nonsense, there is no discrimination either. Dzsennifer <br /> (Hungarian Lakisha) gets a job with a good resume and maybe even some extra help and extra compliments when she succeeds because we know that she had a long road. We can do that because we know that we can fire her without incident if she steals or doesn&#39;t work.Gevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-76382758577456042162017-08-10T09:11:02.073+02:002017-08-10T09:11:02.073+02:00Good grief, but you&#39;ve made Azuriel&#39;s poin...Good grief, but you&#39;ve made Azuriel&#39;s point for him. You&#39;d actually demand that the woman change her name?<br /><br />The sole virtue of meritocracy is that you are judged on what you have done and what your training says you can do, not what you might do or what you might look/sound/be named like.<br /><br />Suppose that Lakisha really does come from a ghetto family, with all the disadvantages that entails. Wouldn&#39;t the fact that her resume is on your desk and competitive with other applicants suggest that she&#39;s got a hell of a lot of determination and ability to make her way up against the odds? If anything, she is more likely to cherish the job and work to keep it, gritting her teeth and letting slide the casual sexual harassment your corporate culture apparently permits, than make an &#39;HR mess&#39;. It is what most women do.<br /><br />But hey, go ahead and hire John Worthington III, whose daddy golfs with you or your major client. <i>That&#39;s</i> a safe bet, right?<br /><br />Still, have to hand it to you - your proof is as ever clear and elegant. As long as employers like yourself exist, affirmative action will be needed to offset them. Social mobility via merit alone is impossible.Estebannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-51348532829161331962017-08-10T08:59:33.814+02:002017-08-10T08:59:33.814+02:00@Druur Monakh: why would I want to fire Lakisha? I...@Druur Monakh: why would I want to fire Lakisha? I want to convert her to the Western values. If Lakisha would turn into a hard-working, meritocratic, decent person, I would consider it a big life accomplishment. My whole blog and all my game projects are about saving Lakisha/ArthasDKlol by teaching asocial, professional approach. <br /><br />After a decade, I know though that in most cases I&#39;ll fail and Lakisha/ArthasDKlol will just take the easy way and blame others for their failures and whine for welfare(epics). It doesn&#39;t mean I&#39;ll ever stop trying. 1% success means a fellow human saved for every 100 tries.<br /><br />@guldur: if you think so, you are free to call your country to exit the EU which will stop such tax transfer. I hope you do. I hate those tax transfers just as much as you do, they turned many of my countrymen into leeches and thieves. Gevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-28814716809831115892017-08-10T08:27:00.596+02:002017-08-10T08:27:00.596+02:00Well... The way I see it, Hungary is sucking my ta...Well... The way I see it, Hungary is sucking my taxes to grow and is now going berserk out of fear: Fair enough, people have the right to be frighten...guldurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-10113123774868667392017-08-10T08:25:58.843+02:002017-08-10T08:25:58.843+02:00@Gevlon Actually, one can&#39;t simply take chance...@Gevlon Actually, one can&#39;t simply take chances with Gevlon, either. I could stand next to you, say &#39;While Lives Matter!&#39;, and you wouldn&#39;t notice because your attention would be focused on Lakisha, hoping to catch her in a fireable offense, instead of doing your work.<br /><br />Don&#39;t run a business. Ever.Druur Monakhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07299435488090977357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-39011809125509937612017-08-10T08:16:42.616+02:002017-08-10T08:16:42.616+02:00@Druur: blind application process is good to measu...@Druur: blind application process is good to measure actual job ability. It&#39;s indeed true, that Lakisha can be just as good at numbers as Emily. Just like Arthasdklol can be just as good DPS as Dorkla.<br /><br />However people even in workplaces operate as people and carry their culture. Ergo, Arthasdklol will provide anal spam and loot drama and Lakisha will likely cause a HR mess over &quot;microaggression&quot;. Sure, in a perfect asocial meritocracy it wouldn&#39;t be a problem, because Arthasdlkol can be insta-kicked and Lakisha can be fired the first time she says &quot;Black Lives Matter!&quot; at the workplace instead of working, but we don&#39;t live in perfect meritocracy (in that I agree with Azuriel). Arthasdkol will probably make some &quot;fun friends&quot; leave with him and Lakisha&#39;s drama will likely cause an expensive lawsuit.<br /><br />Ironically, these are the problems of liberal systems. In Hungary I could safely employ Lakisha as I know that I can fire her if she turns out to stir drama and the courts will laugh at her for trying to sue over someone &quot;oggled&quot; her or called her work slow. So the reason why Lakisha is unemployable is affirmative action and anti-racism. In such systems, one simply can&#39;t take chances with Lakisha.Gevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-60697500145035209862017-08-10T07:28:34.942+02:002017-08-10T07:28:34.942+02:00@Gevlon (in response to @Azuriel): Are you drunk? ...@Gevlon (in response to @Azuriel): Are you drunk? You just threw out your whole &#39;meritocracy&#39; ideology through the window because of a racist, and frankly uninformed, prejudice. If you wanted to be truly meritocratic, you wouldn&#39;t even want to see an applicant&#39;s name on a resume.<br /><br />And have you actually read the other associations of that name? Even Urban Dictionary (which not so much judges, but tracks usage, based on self-selection bias) is actually 2:1 complimentary.<br /><br />Please, never run a real business. You&#39;d be quite suboptimal at it.Druur Monakhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07299435488090977357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-8240777389011445622017-08-10T07:04:54.657+02:002017-08-10T07:04:54.657+02:00@maxim: visible P2W is better than invisible riggi...@maxim: visible P2W is better than invisible rigging, because it allows merit-focusing players to not play. No one will give me back the time I wasted in EVE. If I was aware that I&#39;m actually trying to defeat the community manager, I would just not play.<br /><br />@Anon: GO KATIE!<br /><br />@guldur: &quot;arthasdklol&quot; is a beautiful name. <br />Isn&#39;t there anything worth else than competition? No, because it creates value. You know, food, medicine, homes, cars.<br />Diversity indeed makes our lives interesting. &quot;may you live in interesting times&quot; is a curse for a reason.<br />The world of Nationalists will shrink and no one cares. The world of &quot;culturalists&quot; will grow and win. No one&#39;s color determines his choices, he does. Clarence Thomas is much smarter and wiser than me.<br />This is my preferred way of embracing diversity, supported by 95% of my countrymen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_border_barrierGevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-38901055445131535902017-08-10T06:41:04.107+02:002017-08-10T06:41:04.107+02:00@Gevlon: &quot;Lakisha&quot; is a beautiful name. ...@Gevlon: &quot;Lakisha&quot; is a beautiful name. Isn&#39;t there anything worth else than competition ? Diversity is what makes our lives interesting and the world of nationalists his doomed to shrink due to its own compulsive selection process and the reality of demography. It&#39;s time for you to embrace the world like it is: Beautiful of differences. You are smart enough to figure it out.<br />guldurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-12145652518592468742017-08-10T02:15:06.321+02:002017-08-10T02:15:06.321+02:00So discrimination based their name/upbringing/clas...So discrimination based their name/upbringing/class. Classic Gevlon hypocrisy.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2LxHuXcUTgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-79401803512730122682017-08-10T02:07:23.529+02:002017-08-10T02:07:23.529+02:00@Gevlon
You are usually exceptionally quick at jum...@Gevlon<br />You are usually exceptionally quick at jumping at any even slight possibility of the game author having an incentive to rig the game as proof of game actually being rigged. Why are you advocating pay-to-win (no matter how open)?maximhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12576542229498004147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-72827455958497528032017-08-09T22:31:11.502+02:002017-08-09T22:31:11.502+02:00@Azuriel: not recognizing that &quot;Lakisha&quot;...@Azuriel: not recognizing that &quot;Lakisha&quot; is a name shared by ghetto losers or not caring is lack of merit. It&#39;s like calling your game character ArthasDKlől. Change it!<br />Gevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-82172144111490204222017-08-09T22:21:46.467+02:002017-08-09T22:21:46.467+02:00I picked a bad week to go on vacation.
@Gevlon
I ...I picked a bad week to go on vacation.<br /><br />@Gevlon<br /><i>I would suggest not to employ Lakisha, regardless color.</i><br /><br />How do you reconcile the dissonance between this and your conception of meritocracy? In this scenario, you have Lakisha&#39;s CV in front of you, demonstrating her merit - graduated from X University with Y grade, worked at Z company, etc. Instead, you will throw it in the trash because... reasons other than her documented merit.Azurielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16581263347888757710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-91404998672219147682017-08-09T17:11:45.583+02:002017-08-09T17:11:45.583+02:00&quot;Fun fact: if you google &quot;american inven...&quot;Fun fact: if you google &quot;american inventors&quot; you get a bunch of faces on the top of the screen, practically all of them black and/or women (Bell and Edison being white males), most of them inventing obscure little things.&quot;<br /><br />Well I&#39;ll be damned. At first, I didn&#39;t get that result as I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google. But I switched it to google just for this, and got the exact result you say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-82646186137200438242017-08-09T16:59:29.338+02:002017-08-09T16:59:29.338+02:00World of Tanks developers do not come from the USA...World of Tanks developers do not come from the USA and therefore do not belong to Hillary land (as far as I know, they aren&#39;t big fans of &quot;liberal&quot; ideas either), yet I believe they cater to M&amp;S like anyone else.Antzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627061373959554553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-35939862548960115642017-08-09T14:19:37.933+02:002017-08-09T14:19:37.933+02:00@Anon: and what about Google, the search engine? A...@Anon: and what about Google, the search engine? Are they expected to provide legitimate hits, or can they just provide you propaganda pages?<br /><br />Fun fact: if you google &quot;american inventors&quot; you get a bunch of faces on the top of the screen, practically all of them black and/or women (Bell and Edison being white males), most of them inventing obscure little things.<br /><br />If you google &quot;amerikai feltalálók&quot; (same thing in Hungarian language), you gut a bunch of famous white male inventors, Eastman, Tesla, Morse, Fulton, Gatling, Fuller, Browning, Goodyear and other easily recognizable names, despite most of them don&#39;t have Hungarian language articles among the top hits or even a Hungarian wikipedia page.<br /><br /><br />More political point: while refusing to host politics can be good business, as a Holocaust denial video would definitely not something advertisers wants, refusing to host right-wing politics only is surely bad business as a fat blue hair chick shouting how white man are cancer is probably also not an advertiser&#39;s dream and also the advertisers risk a right-win boycott if they selectively advertise, which is the exact opposite of what they want with advertisements. Remember that half of the US voted for Trump, so acting like they are just some fringe crazies is surely bad business.Gevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-4830665025331403362017-08-09T12:40:59.729+02:002017-08-09T12:40:59.729+02:00&gt; Youtube is a utility, they are providing a te...&gt; Youtube is a utility, they are providing a technical service, yet they censor content based on ideology. They don&#39;t have free speech, because they are not supposed to speak at all, just provide platform for various speakers.<br /><br />Read the statutes. Google is required to *host* and *serve* material without prejudice because it&#39;s classified as a Common Carrier. If it begins to exclude content for political or preference reasons, then it becomes responsible for all of content that it serves. For example, any copyright holder whose work gets infringed could sue Google (and receive compensation) instead of merely getting the infringing video taken down.<br /><br />Google does not want that to happen. If Youtube loses Common Carrier status then its business model falls apart. Google&#39;s lawyers are treading carefully.<br /><br />But Google has some discretionary power. It is, for example, able to &quot;Feature&quot; some videos on its homepage which will give those videos greater visibility and ad revenue. It is not required to be neutral in those decisions. It could choose to feature dog videos instead of cat videos. It could choose to promote K-pop instead of J-pop. It might fail to promote the latest meme simply because the Youtube staff haven&#39;t discovered the meme yet. It might refuse to ever feature any right-wing content because the Youtube staff is a bunch of Hillary fans.<br /><br />Google is arguing that the excluded services (comments, recommendations, AdSense, etc) are all ancillary; hence they&#39;re not covered by Common Carrier regulations. Google will still host racist videos, and visitors will still be able to view racist videos on Youtube. It&#39;s just that Google usually offers a bunch of bonus stuff on a voluntary basis, and they&#39;ll now refrain from offering those bonuses to racist jerks.<br /><br />And remember: Google is a business. It&#39;s possible that they&#39;re doing this because their decisionmakers are brainwashed SJW beta cuck libtards ... but it&#39;s also possible that they&#39;re doing it to appease advertisers. If you manufacture high quality soap and lampshades, but your ad is placed beside a Holocaust-denial video, then your company&#39;s public image is going to be damaged.<br /><br /><br />&gt; It&#39;s similar to refusing to serve black people at your restaurant because you&#39;re a racist, with the only difference being we have laws against the latter.<br /><br />Restaurants are handled under public-accommodation rules rather than common carrier jurisprudence. Some forms of discrimination are allowed: a restaurant can offer reduced prices to elderly customers, or free meals to military veterans, or special gifts for women who visit on Mother&#39;s Day, or provide a children&#39;s menu from which adults are not allowed to order.<br /><br />A common carrier cannot discriminate in this way. If Verizon specifically prioritized the internet traffic of its Sikh customers while throttling Buddhists, then it would find itself in serious trouble.<br /><br />But remember that common carrier status does not apply to all aspects of a business. Verizon&#39;s billing department, for example, might make prejudiced decisions based on a customer&#39;s name or residence. If a guy in a rich white neighborhood misses a bill payment then he might receive an automatic reminder, whereas a guy in a poor black ghetto might see his services suspended immediately. That would be scummy (and arguably a poor business decision) but it wouldn&#39;t be a violation of common carrier regulations.<br /><br />Google is arguing that its ancillary Youtube services are not covered by the umbrella of common carriage. It&#39;s somewhat legally dubious, but the current leaders in the FCC and Congress prefer *less* regulation of internet services ... so it&#39;s unlikely that Google will be forced to back down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-61175957453612039502017-08-09T12:40:13.755+02:002017-08-09T12:40:13.755+02:00@Anon: arthasdklol is everywhere. There isn&#39;t ...@Anon: arthasdklol is everywhere. There isn&#39;t a group without genuine low IQ people or those playing under influence. The reason why Arthasdklol became &quot;a thing&quot; is that due to welfare epics and catchup mechanisms, they appeared in the groups of decent players. Without these they will be limited to low level content.Gevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-14840391961663285822017-08-09T12:03:19.631+02:002017-08-09T12:03:19.631+02:00If the game devs are young and will shut down on a...If the game devs are young and will shut down on arthasdklol, then surely, among young gamers, there must be no arthasdklol?<br /><br />It must all be people who are Gen Y, Gen X or Baby boomers?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-83919842999430708112017-08-09T11:40:25.018+02:002017-08-09T11:40:25.018+02:00@maxim, @vv: the business solution to accessibilit...@maxim, @vv: the business solution to accessibility and corruption is open pay-to-win. That proved to get money to the publisher and it&#39;s also something that one can plan around. You can choose to pay to be competitive or not play if the payment is too high.<br /><br />Also, I&#39;m not saying that &quot;fair, non-p2w&quot; games will be all. But they&#39;ll become an available niche. Now they are not, because they are politically impossible.Gevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-54813226205846365452017-08-09T10:50:18.959+02:002017-08-09T10:50:18.959+02:00But WoW is making more money now than in WotLK tim...But WoW is making more money now than in WotLK times, according to Activision/Blizzard.<br /><br />&gt; Since the game devs are young, soon the industry will be full of conservatives who will not find it a moral obligation to cater to ArthasDKLőL. This will also solve the corruption problem, as conservatives are much less likely to steal and cheat.<br /><br />Those people grow up on f2p mobile games. And they find it strange when you can&#39;t buy progress for real money in Dark Souls for example.vvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00431318231966753609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-35492758307609655252017-08-09T09:42:23.867+02:002017-08-09T09:42:23.867+02:00@Gevlon
Identity politics is going to get more and...@Gevlon<br />Identity politics is going to get more and more traction, because it offers a strong set of political options to those who adopt it in current political environment. Expect to see more and more people telling that stuff needs to change based on the needs of an identity.<br /><br />As a human universalist, i find this trend rather appalling. However, human universalists are a bit dry on political options right now :(<br /><br />The current problem with gaming is institutionalised in the form of business models, catering to casuals. Even if conservative people come to prominence, if they don&#39;t find stronger business models, they won&#39;t get much change done. We are seeing a bit of a resurgence of classic gaming sensibilites in &quot;high difficulty&quot; games, but it seems to have hit a bit of a rut now, having reached the limits of the &quot;git good&quot; idea and not found any other positive message so far.<br /><br />Of course, nobody can exclude the possibility of some genius appearing and reformatting the entire industry, kind of what Nintendo Switch is currently doing for console market (Nintendo itself is a serial market-reformatter :D). This, however, is not a process that can be made light of or taken for grantedmaximhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12576542229498004147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-60048552448453483572017-08-09T08:15:44.236+02:002017-08-09T08:15:44.236+02:00@Esteban: Azuriel quotes a faulty post that is bui...@Esteban: Azuriel quotes a faulty post that is built on &quot;as obvious&quot; that it wants to research: &quot;people are racists&quot;. <br /><br />Gamergate was observed as &quot;gamers vs non-gaming SJWs&quot;. Blizzard was observed as making a PR move towards SJWs and not as someone who believes it at all.<br /><br />The definition of &quot;scientist&quot; isn&#39;t clear, as most of the academia is in &quot;humanities&quot; that do not do any measurable science.Gevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-73366125914560283642017-08-09T07:43:24.338+02:002017-08-09T07:43:24.338+02:00Leaving aside the merits of the argument itself (i...Leaving aside the merits of the argument itself (in which, it will not surprise you, I think Azuriel is eminently correct) your astonishment at the presence of leftist, fairness-values people in gaming and in STEM fields is a huge case of confirmation bias.<br /><br />Remember GamerGate? It would not have gained much traction if not for an attitudinal change in gamer identity which threatened an older core that felt encroached upon. Blizzard&#39;s Overwatch is completely built around diversity esthetics. The sleeper indie hit last summer was Undertale, a game about finding oneself (etc.) where one can befriend enemies instead of defend them. This summer, it&#39;s a gay male dating simulator. (<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/dream-daddy-game-review/" rel="nofollow">Not joking.</a>) This stuff would not have been possible several years ago.<br /><br />American academia is left-leaning, and not just in the basket-weaving and gender studies areas. The last time a survey was conducted on the subject, about eight years ago, 6% of <i>scientists</i> considered themselves Republicans, and I do not see any reason why that number would have grown in the post-truth age of Trump. This squares entirely with my own anecdotal experience, as someone who maintains professional connections with scientists (molecular biology and genetics, if it matters) in both Canada and Spain. Practically everyone is to the left of their country&#39;s spectrum.<br /><br />The thing about &#39;Generation Z&#39; is interesting, but I would be wary of assuming that people who are 16 to 18 have any kind of stable political profile. Still, time will tell. For the moment, the millenial is centre stage, and we all know what they&#39;re like.Estebannoreply@blogger.com